Mass Effect 3 (ENGLISH)

Mass Effect 3 (Clint Mansell, Sam Hulick, Cris Velasco, Sascha Dikiciyan and Christopher Lennertz). The conclusion of the galactic epic has the most emotive score of three episodes. The Fate of the Galaxy and Leaving Earth are an example of it in the beginning of the album, and whose titles already give to understand the dramatic quality that acquires the story after beginning Mass Effect 3.

Another dramatic inducement is Mars, the following track, which makes the player conscious of how close the danger is to the Earth on having placed the first mission in Mars, in contraposition with the distant worlds visited along the galaxy in the previous episodes. Tracks like I'm Sorry, I Was Lost Without You and I'm Proud Of You show the more intimist character of the score, which had not met in the previous episodes. The action present along the whole Mass Effect's story is splashed by cinematic sequences that are defining the destiny of each one of the characters and that are accentuated in this type of tracks along the third episode that supposes the end of the story.

Christopher Lennertz's tracks A Future for the Krogan and Surkesh border on high quality, like it happened in his participation for the Mass Effect 2 DLC Lair of the Shadow Broker. Specially the first one is one of this musical moments that stand out clearly in the story and of those that later are looked in the sooundtrack. Lennertz demonstrates his good aptitudes for the composition of the epic themes in ME2 and ME3.

The Fleets Arrive is undoubtedly the most exciting moment of the video game and the music is at the height with this track, half a way between the epic tone and the military march. An End, Once and For All closes the circle opened by The Fate of the Galaxy, two tracks that summarize very well the dramatist development of the story into this third and last part.

On the other hand, Faunts closes the story with a theme in the final credits, like they have done in the first episode of the saga, and that evades us a bit from the dramatic quality of the end.

The main album of Mass Effect 3 soundtrack contains 23 tracks, whereas the N7 Collector's Edition (available only for those who were buying the game in this version) was including 2 more tracks. The additional albums add the music of the downloadable contents released with posteriority to the release of the game. Extend Cut puts music to the version with the expanded end, Citadel gives the music of the Shepard's mission for the depths of the Citadel and Leviathan adds one but intense theme for the setting of the submarine mission.

The albums of the Mass Effect 3 soundtrack have been only published in digital format.